RE: Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism
July 31, 2013 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2013 at 3:41 pm by Bad Writer.)
(July 31, 2013 at 2:21 pm)Undeceived Wrote:(July 31, 2013 at 2:16 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh great, another Xian who thinks the Scientists are out to get him.
Scientists do their best to explain a universe without a catalyst. They are still looking for a catalyst, it just can't be God. It's their job to find material solutions to natural processes. And it's our job to understand that. Once scientists try to explain something beyond/before the natural world, they need not be trusted--they are by definition outside of their field of expertise.
And anyone who says the any such catalyst must be Supernatural should never be trusted.
Remember Crop Circles? People were convinced that aliens did it. Well, it made sense, seeing as it was something unexplained at the time, so something beyond our understanding had to be the case, such as the superior abilities of extraterrestrials. The thing these nutjobs messed up on is that they assumed aliens did it, so they took that as fact instead of simple supposition. Then, when we proved how exactly the pranksters made the circles happen, the alien theory was almost completely dropped.
Whenever a cosmological phenomenon happened in the past, people speculated that godidit. Everytime we advance enough to fully investigate these claims, it turns out that god did not do it. As this is the pattern for everything so far in science, scientists have a lot going for them when they set out to investigate the causes of the Universe or its age without referencing the Bible or God claims first.